First-Run VOD

PUB. DATE

July 2004

SOURCE

Multichannel News;7/5/2004, Vol. 25 Issue 27, p16

SOURCE TYPE

Review

DOC. TYPE

Entertainment Review

ABSTRACT

Presents a list of the first-run and continuing motion pictures in the video-on-demand window from the major studios that supply product to cable operators. "City of God," from Buena Vista; "Bad Santa," from Buena Vista; "Big Fish," from Sony.

ACCESSION #

13712176

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